I've done a couple of new portraits for JKPP which you can see here and also on my portraits page.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
KINDS OF GENIUS
My cyber-friend Wally (alias crackskullbob,
alias Wally Torta etc.)
who is a kind of genius - I say kind of because
that leaves
me room to escape from the authorities in case they
declare
he's not a full-blown genius - has just posted his
drawing
of me from a recent photo which I put on Julia
Kay's Portrait Party,. He accompanies this
terrific
sketch with one of his free-associating verbal
flights of imagination which are a constant
feature of his blog-writing and drawing, like the
inspired
riffs of jazz musicians. I
love this ability to leave behind the prosaic
gravity of
everyday thinking by playfully following any clue
that presents
itself - a name, a word, a passer-by, a shadow, a
sound
- and simply taking off with it, wherever it
may
lead. I say that this weightlesss
space-travelling
talent is one of the essential components of
genius in
any field, and the authorities be damned if they
disagree.
I've done a couple of new portraits for JKPP which you can see here and also on my portraits page.
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I've done a couple of new portraits for JKPP which you can see here and also on my portraits page.
MORE
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2 comments:
I love this. Wally is indeed a kind of genius.
( I now can't comment at all on the horrid Echo thing on your main blog - and that of several other friends who used to have Haloscan, so don't take my moaning personally - It refuses to recognise my Blogger account )
Jean, sorry about that. I don't understand this Echo thing that was foisted on us. Maybe you should complain to Blogger, or to Echo? Glad to see you anyway.
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